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Subject: Re: Instant Pascal
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Date: Tue, 24-Jul-84 22:42:31 EDT
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From: mclure@Sri-Unix.arpa
    When MacTerminal and MacPut/MacGet work properly, it will be simple
to load stuff to/from a Macintosh.  One will regularly edit textfiles
or programs (debugging with MacPascal, MacC, MacForth, MacBasic).
Then, when an edit is complete, the file can be sent in the proper
direction.  And the program can be run on the other machine.

    This will be very useful for avoiding the lengthy daytime response
that most overloaded mainframes have.  The beauty of the personal
computing is that the response is always the same.  While I feel that
the Macintosh processor should be at least 4-8 mhz faster to be truly
useful, at the moment it is usable for textediting, simple debugging,
etc.  I hope that future Macintoshes will have faster versions of the
68000.

    And while it is true that most Unixen don't take advantage of
special terminal capabilities such as windowing, there are a few that
do.  The lack of a real standard is the problem.  Everyone has their
own special "standard".

	Stuart